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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 9, 2010 - 10:52pm PT
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1) Energy, 32 gal of gas = Energy, 1 man year (or, 1 slave year)
Source: (a) William Catton (b) basic physics
2) A 200 lb man rapping stresses an anchor system 200lbs. A 200 lb man being lowered stresses a pulley anchor system 400 lbs. (minus friction effects)
Source: (a) statics
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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#2 is why the American Triangle is stupid.
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nevenneve
Trad climber
Back somewhere flat, dammit
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Who cares how much he weighs. If the fool is rapping he's stressing everything in the immediate area. Specially if some broke ass mofo start beatboxing and slides his hat down in front of the two of em. Fo sure I know better than to get into that slave jive you started on. You a bustah aint yah.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I have a flatulence problem but it's nowhere near 32 gallons a year!
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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true dat. according to your previous girlfriends, its closer to 3200 gallons per year. haha..
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2010 - 02:04pm PT
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Imagine it: You're a contestant on a game show and you're presented with three closed doors. Just like on Let's Make a Deal. Behind one sits a new car, the other two conceal goats. Pick the correct door and the car is yours. Imagine further that you have chosen Door #1. Your host then opens Door #2, revealing a goat. He now gives you a chance to switch your bet from Door #1 to the remaining Door #3. Should you switch? The correct answer is Yes. But most people will blow it - relying on their intuition - and say it doesn't matter.
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howlostami
Trad climber
Southern Tier, NY
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Nov 11, 2010 - 02:07pm PT
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"Imagine it: You're a contestant on a game show and you're presented with three closed doors. Just like on Let's Make a Deal. Behind one sits a new car, the other two conceal goats. Pick the correct door and the car is yours. Imagine further that you have chosen Door #1. Your host then opens Door #2, revealing a goat. He now gives you a chance to switch your bet from Door #1 to the remaining Door #3. Should you switch? The correct answer is Yes. But most people will blow it - relying on their intuition - and say it doesn't matter."
I hate this question! No matter how many times I hear it or get an explanation it just won't click! :) I think stupidity has more inertia than intellect...
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monolith
climber
Berkeley, CA
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Nov 11, 2010 - 02:26pm PT
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I don't get it either(even after reading the answer). Switching or not should not matter.
But I also think the amp with the volume knob that goes to 11 is louder than the one that goes to 10.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2010 - 02:55pm PT
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A trick you could use for cutting through this shortcoming of intuition in this case is to substitute 10 doors or 100 doors for the three and then play it out. Hopefully then - after all these goats have been revealed - it should be more clear that you should switch to the last remaining door. In order to maximize your chances for getting the car.
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nevenneve
Trad climber
Back somewhere flat, dammit
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Nov 11, 2010 - 03:21pm PT
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You do know that if you have a campfire the wood doesn't burn. Believe whatever you want I'm still pretty sure the outside of my marshmallow changed color and the heat from it melted the chocolate.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2010 - 03:39pm PT
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Ah, you're thinking ahead - after the fossil fuels are gone - I like that!
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nevenneve
Trad climber
Back somewhere flat, dammit
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Nov 11, 2010 - 03:56pm PT
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Actually I broke my meditation, on deriving a synthetic substance with the qualities of my current drug cocktail of choice being administered perpetually far below the atomic level, to get a snack and noticed this toward the top of my screen. More accurately I was watching the 40 ft. flames coming off my brush pile today and was reminded of that little nugget.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 11, 2010 - 03:57pm PT
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Darn it Tami! Now I have to clean coffee off my screen and keyboard. What a mess...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
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re: sweet science
"Sweet science" is slang for boxing. I guess pugilism wasn't enough.
EDIT
The reference is to the European tradition in which "gentlemen" were schooled in the "sciences" of sword, gun, and fistfighting. Fisticuffs, being the least lethal, was called the "Sweet Science".
The good ol' days.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:00pm PT
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A 200 lb man rapping stresses an anchor system 200lbs. A 200 lb man being lowered stresses a pulley anchor system 400 lbs. Wanna bet on that? Static or dynamic force?
The minimum force exerted on the system, in this case, would be about 0.9 kN. That is 90 kg x 9.8 m/sec/sec. The maximum force may be a great deal more.
Paging rgold, and other knowledgeable physicists.
Speaking of goats, there's a well-known charity the name of which escapes me, which does international development work. One of their promotions right now is to buy two goats for families in 'developing' countries, as a way to let them be self-sufficient.
The problem with goats and sheep, though, is that they eat everything, including the plant's roots. Cattle just eat what's sticking up, the foliage, leaving the roots to regrow. Goats don't, which is one reason why the fertile crescent isn't so fertile any more.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:05pm PT
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MIghty Anders, you and High Fructose Corn Spirit deserve each other, just saying.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2010 - 03:07pm PT
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MH-
Your response is vague. I think you missed the larger point. Your grade on the reponse: C-.
Oh, on issues of either Statics or Dynamics, one good mechanical engineer on average equals three equivalent physicists.
Interesting sheep and goat fact, though.
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EDIT
Peter, I just don't know what you're talking about. ;) Assuming it's complimentary! LOL!
P.S. Cool sliding doberman vid.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 26, 2010 - 04:17pm PT
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one good mechanical engineer on average equals three equivalent physicists
there is no "equivalent physicist" for a mechanical engineer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs
In many undergraduate physics texts the event is presented as an example of elementary forced resonance with the wind providing an external periodic frequency that matched the natural structural frequency (even though the real cause of the bridge's failure was aeroelastic flutter[1]).
Wikipedia
you can delete the thread now...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2010 - 04:23pm PT
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Hahahah, I knew you'd be the first to post to THAT one! Touché!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Nov 26, 2010 - 04:24pm PT
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